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Despite her aunt being in the house, as well as her son and servants, she never cries out for help.

When Ross finally leaves at dawn, she coyly asks when she will see him again.

May I suggest this simply wasn’t rape. Not that you’d know it from all the breast-beating the scene provoked as feminists reverted to the default position that all men are potential rapists and all women victims.

That is why 40 female MPs demanded this week that the law should be changed to protect alleged rape victims from having their sex lives revealed in court following the Ched Evans case.

Evans is, of course, the loathsome footballer who indulged with a drunken girl in a threesome.

Ched Evans was acquitted of rape during a retrial in which details of the girl’s sexual history were revealed by two of her former lovers

He was acquitted of rape during a retrial in which details of the girl’s sexual history were revealed by two of her former lovers.

The MPs feel allowing this evidence will deter women from reporting rape, and want the sexual history of the victim to be inadmissible in future.

But whatever you think of Evans — and he’s clearly an amoral man — the girl’s sexual past was relevant in this case and helped prove his innocence.

So what is preferable?

The right of a woman who remains anonymous to have her past censored?

Or a named man to be wrongly jailed because the jurors were denied vital information?

But then we live in a Kafkaesque world in which a draft amendment before the Lords would mean men accused of rape may not be allowed to know the name of their accusers.

This would be an appalling abuse of justice.

In our desperation to increase rape convictions, the courts are tipping the scales against men.

They are deemed to be guilty unless they can prove themselves innocent.

WESTMINSTER WARS...

In a speech about the perils of Brexit, John McDonnell three times confused Brexit with bacon and eggs, claiming Theresa May was ‘hurtling towards a chaotic breakfast’.

If the Shadow Chancellor can’t tell the difference between the legitimate will of the British people and a Full English, his brain is even more scrambled than we thought.

Failed leadership contender Michael Gove was asked by Sky’s Adam Boulton what was his biggest mistake: ‘Supporting Boris, knifing Boris or thinking you were fit to be prime minister?’

Gove replied: ‘I did come third.’ Yes, in a three-horse race.

Out of respect for the murdered Jo Cox, no major party stood against Labour in the West Yorkshire by- election.

Yet neither the Tories nor Ukip will field a candidate in the by-election triggered by Zac Goldsmith’s resignation for fear of splitting the conservative vote and allowing the Lib Dems in.

What an insult to democracy.

I’d rather a Liberal than that spoilt rich brat Zac.

Scotland Yard has still not ruled out investigating married father Keith Vaz on conspiracy to supply a controlled substance, in his case cocaine for rent boys.

So why has he just been appointed to the Commons Justice Select Committee, which oversees the courts, prisons and criminal and family justice?

Is it any wonder that politics is increasingly held in contempt?

Hot but no Nigella

After winning Bake Off, Candice Brown was hailed as the ‘new Nigella’

After winning Bake Off, Candice Brown was hailed as the ‘new Nigella’.

Hardly.

One thing they have in common is luscious lips.

Nigella was privately educated, went to Oxford and benefited from being the daughter of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baron Lawson of Blaby.

Candice was born in the East End and pulled pints in her dad’s pub.

But one other thing they do share is a dodgy taste in men.

Candice’s boyfriend is an ex-con former drug dealer, while Nigella’s ex Charles Saatchi tried to throttle his Domestic Goddess.

No surprises that Australian billionaire James Packer has called off his wedding to Mariah Carey.

His friends says he tired of her extravagance, while hers say the diva was upset because he wasn’t ‘present’ enough for her.

They were never going to be happy ever after, especially as she requires kittens and puppies to be ‘present’ for her in her dressing room before going onstage.

You can never expect an Aussie man to be a lapdog.

No surprises that Australian billionaire James Packer has called off his wedding to Mariah Carey

Is Ed curvier than Katya?

Shield your eyes, Yvette, your husband Ed Ball’s Strictly partner Katya Jones is prancing around on the beach showing off her stupendous figure in a bikini.

No wonder Ed almost dropped her last week and accidentally ended up with his face inside her skirt.

Isn’t it curious, though, that after more than two months of intensive training, he still looks as if he’s six months pregnant — or has he just swallowed Strictly’s Glitterball?

Shield your eyes, Yvette, your husband Ed Ball’s Strictly partner Katya Jones is prancing around on the beach showing off her stupendous figure in a bikini

Spouse in the White House

Tuesday, November 8, should be a special day for women as it’s when Hillary Clinton will become the first female U.S. President.

Her campaign has been boosted this week by the support of another great force for womankind, Michelle Obama.

Girls everywhere will be inspired by Mrs Clinton, Mrs Obama said, as she is someone who ‘values and honours women’.

What a triumph for feminism! It’s just sad that two of the most powerful women on Earth achieved their elevated positions only because of the men they married.

Are you hearing me Cherie Blair?

It's Superluvvie

Benedict Cumberbatch has spent hours in the gym to bulk up for his latest role in the Marvel superhero movie, Doctor Strange

Benedict Cumberbatch has spent hours in the gym to bulk up for his latest role in the Marvel superhero movie, Doctor Strange.

He says his new six-pack wasn’t for Hollywood, but for his family, as his wife Sophie is expecting their second child.

‘The physical regime helped,’ the luvvie said. ‘But that wasn’t for the obligatory shirt-off moment. It was keeping healthy for my family.’

Do they have sick bags in Marvel land?

Binmen in Scotland fear a ban on receiving a Christmas cash thank-you from residents will spread throughout the nation.

They have been warned that if they take anything other than biscuits or sweets, they face the sack.

I’ve always found that unless I hand over a hefty note, my rubbish isn’t collected until the following Christmas.

Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout made him the first American to win the Man Booker Prize.

Judges say the story, which involves a black man who wants to reintroduce slavery, contains ‘absolutely savage wit’ and manages to ‘eviscerate every social taboo and politically correct nuance’.

It also contains 200 references to ‘n*****s’, something no white author could get away with.

Awaiting the arrival of his eighth child, Mick Jagger has already moved on from the baby’s mother, ballerina Melanie Hamrick.

He’s now with Russian model Masha Rudenko, who is 31 to his 73 years.

And he’s taken up aerial yoga, which combines yoga with dance and pilates.

It sounds youthful — until you discover the wrinkly rocker does the exercises suspended in a hammock.

Spare us the daytime TV sofa sanctimony from Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who says his three children are proud of the fact that he will leave most of his $70 billion fortune to the world’s poor rather than to them.

Yep, they’ll get only a reported $10 million each — the rest is going to the self-aggrandising philanthropist’s charities.

We would be more impressed by his generosity if his companies paid their fair share of taxes like the rest of us.

They used to be best friends and collaborators on the TV show A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. Now Hugh, star of the hit U.S. drama House, has been honoured by having his name on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Of which washed-up Stephen Fry said: ‘He will spend an eternity having chewing gum and dog poo trodden into him.’ No hard feelings there!